Still All Honey: Tragedy and Song in Robin MacArthur’s Half Wild
“Tragedy consoles us and seduces us to live, but the synthesis is a fragile one…” –Raymond Geuss In Nietzsche’s early work on dramatic theory, The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872),...
View ArticleLearning to Re-See: An Interview with Michelle Ross
Michelle Ross inspired me to start writing fiction again. I met her nearly a decade ago at our mutual workplace and we quickly sniffed out our common love of fiction and became friends. On our...
View ArticleFeminine, Bloody, and Strange: An Interview with Alex Behr
I knew I wanted to interview Alex Behr four pages into her debut story collection, Planet Grim (7.13 Books), which opens with a story about a pre-teen girl getting her period in front of the whole...
View ArticleAn Interview with Louise Marburg
Louise Marburg grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and studied graphic design at the Kansas City Art Institute. She later finished her college degree at New York University’s Gallatin Division of...
View ArticleBeing the Other: An Interview with R.L. Maizes
R.L. Maizes’s debut collection, We Love Anderson Cooper, will be published in July by Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing. In an interview with her publisher, Maizes has indicated...
View ArticleOpen Secrets: An Interview with Carrie Messenger
Fictional works teach us how to read them, and in the case of Carrie Messenger’s short stories in her Brighthorse Prize-winning collection, In the Amber Chamber, each story introduces its own terrible...
View ArticleA Story Is a House: An Interview with Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
“I have an accent,” Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry tells me when we sit down to discuss her debut collection, What Isn’t Remembered (University of Nebraska Press), and it’s true. That, I expected....
View ArticleOrientation, by Daniel Orozco
Editor’s Note: For the first several months of 2022, we’ll be celebrating some of our favorite work from the last fourteen years in a series of “From the Archives” posts. In today’s feature, J.T....
View ArticleLiminal Spaces: An Interview with Lydia Conklin
On a freezing winter night, a teenager sneaks out to her first party, her pet rat in her pocket. Uncertain about the stability of their newly open relationship, and navigating a tangle of emotions...
View ArticleNight of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty
Morgan Talty’s linked story collection, Night of the Living Rez (Tin House Books), isn’t out until July, but it’s already garnered critical acclaim, including several well-meaning comparisons to Denis...
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